A Sriwijaya sentinel boat slowly sailed into the mouth of the Batang River and stopped at a wharf in that crowded and thriving trading market.

The gangplank was set up, and the old man Liang Youwen got off the slender sentry boat first. Then he turned around, smiled with a smile on his face, and made a Buddhist salute to the monk Yuanjue, a great monk of the Great Song Dynasty who was sitting cross-legged in the sentry boat, and pointed to a group of people in colorful and green silk clothes standing on the dock and said: "Master, please get off the boat, the great minister of the Three Buddhas is over there, and he is here to reward the soldiers of the Celestial Empire at the behest of the Buddha King of the Three Buddhas." ”

The great monk of Yuanjue just answered, carried the boat with both hands, stood up with a strong support, and then swaggered to the dock through the gangplank.

The group of people dressed in colorful and green silk clothes saw Monk Yuanjue get off the boat and came forward one after another. The first one was an old man wearing a scarlet Song Dynasty military attache uniform, but he didn't look Han, but the local Malayyu people of Srivijaya.

If it is a serious envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, when he sees this dress, he should know that this old man must have been an envoy to the Song Dynasty, and he received a gift in the Song Dynasty, and he can be regarded as an "honorary official" of the Great Song Dynasty. But where did Yuan Jue know this? So he asked Liang Youwen beside him: "Liang Laohan, the Sprinkle family asks you, who is the person wearing the official robe of the Great Song Dynasty?" ”

Liang You asked: "Master, that noble man is the Great Appearance Leather Socks of the Three Buddhas, and he is also the Huaiyuan General of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

"Huh? How could the great minister of the Three Buddhas be an official of the Great Song Dynasty? ”

Yuan Jue's words were a little exposed.

But it doesn't matter if he's an envoy or not, the fleet outside the mouth of the Badang River can't be fake! Moreover, the warship of the Pu family has not appeared until now, and it is estimated that it does not exist anymore.

Liang Youwen explained; "The Great Minister of Leather Socks once paid tribute to the Great Song Dynasty twice during the Yuan You period, and was awarded a Huaiyuan general."

General Huaiyuan is a martial officer of the fifth grade. In the unusually chaotic official system of the Song Dynasty, the civil and scattered officials existed as the rank of civil officials. On the other hand, the military officer was not a military attaché, but was only occasionally awarded to officials and foreign envoys.

"I see." The great monk Yuanjue responded in his mouth, but he still couldn't figure it out in his heart - he, a monk of the Song Dynasty, didn't even know how many grades and levels his official was, let alone the uncommon martial arts officials.

But it doesn't matter if you can't figure it out, he's here to ask for money anyway, and the rest doesn't matter.

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"Only 200,000 taels of gold? This, that's too little, right? Is your king really a disciple of the Buddha? Why is the heart so insincere? If you die like this, you will not be able to go to the light world, but you will go to darkness and hell! ”

In the magnificent Golden Pagoda Futu Temple, the eminent monk Yuan Jue is using the dark hell of Manichaeism to scare the leather socks of Tantric Buddhism.

Leather socks have been to the Great Song Dynasty twice, and have stayed in the Song Dynasty for more than three years, and they have also been kind to many Song merchants on the side of the Three Buddhas, and they are proficient in Chinese.

But he still doesn't understand what the "light world" and the "dark hell" are?

But it doesn't matter if you don't understand it, he still understands the meaning of the other party's lack of money!

"Master, 200,000 taels of gold is already a lot!" With a painful look on his leather stockings, King Dhara gave him a quota of 250,000 taels of gold, and he had to get a commission of 50,000 taels, and the rest was only 200,000 taels. To add more, there are fewer achievements in Nati......

"Yes, 200,000 taels of gold is equivalent to 2 million taels of silver, converted into copper coins, and 3 million taels are available."

Liang Youwen was helping beside him - he had already asked the Tianfang Sect businessman who had just come from the Song Dynasty to inquire about the situation in the past few days, and finally knew that the Great Song Dynasty had been a little chaotic in recent years. The lord is a traitor, and he is reckless and militant externally, and he is light on literature and business, and reuses a group of profiteers, and also abandons the Confucian road handed down by his ancestors, and makes out the ...... of "Empirical Theory" and "Theory of Reason" by Raushzi In general, the chaos of the dying country is a faction!

It is estimated that this farce of "defending the holy land of Buddhism" was also tossed out by those faint kings and traitors!

The matter of asking for 500,000 taels of gold is most likely a vote for the officials of the expeditionary army who privately divided it themselves (it was really guessed by Liang Youwen), and it was really a corrupt official who became an international official.

"Too little, too little...... "Yuan Jue's head shook like a rattle, this time there are more than 10,000 soldiers and officials in the mission, and 200,000 taels of gold is not enough!

"At least 250,000!" Yuan Jue said, "And these 250,000 taels have to be gold, and other things are counted separately." ”

250,000 taels? Isn't there no greed?

The leather stockings made a bitter face, and Yuan Jue comforted him when he saw it: "Great appearance, money is something outside the body!" Didn't the king of your family say that he became a monk? The four major monks are empty, what do you want so much money for? Why don't you take out the deeds of supporting my Buddha and help the Buddha's light overcome the darkness! This is a great merit! ”

Buddha's light triumphs over darkness? Why does it sound so twisted? What kind of sutra is this monk reciting?

"Moreover, the 250,000 taels of gold are not taken from you for nothing." Monk Yuanjue continued to flicker.

Don't look at him as a powerful man, think that he is a demon who eats by strength - in fact, he is a religious leader, he lives by preaching and preaching, and his ability is on one mouth.

Yuan Jue said: "Now that the fleet of the Pu family is over, you have Java in the east and Chura in the west, and they are all Brahmins. And they are all eyeing the Three Buddhas! If it weren't for the protection of the Great Song Dynasty, would you still be able to dominate the waterways between the West and the South Sea? ”

"But the Great Song Dynasty is so far away from the Three Buddhas, how can it be possible to shelter the Three Buddhas?"

Yuan Jue said with a smile: "Actually, it's not far, the waterway from Guangzhou to the south to the Three Buddhas is only five or six thousand miles, if the wind is favorable, you can travel thousands of miles in one day and one night, but you can reach it in a few days." ”

"But there are only a few months of the year when the north wind is common, and when the north wind blows, there are few south winds to borrow, so it is not easy to go north." Leather socks said, "If there is a change in Nanyang at this time, how will Da Song know?" ”

Liang Youwen, who was acting as a staff member in leather stockings, also added at this time: "Even if the news is sent to Guangzhou, Guangzhou can't send troops, and Pegasus has to report to the Son of Heaven to know about it, and then we can arrange the dispatch of troops." This has come and gone, and a year or two has passed. ”

The original system of the Song Dynasty was to control the central government, and the local military power was very small, so it was very unfavorable to the reactionary cause of colonialism. Thousands of miles or even tens of thousands of miles across the ocean, I still want to dream from Zhongyu.

"It's not the same time now," Yuan Jue said, "Since the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty has decided to send troops to Tianzhu to save the holy land of Buddhism, he naturally wants to let go of power." At present, the imperial court has set up a coastal city ship management department, which is fully responsible for the affairs of the open sea and the rescue of the Baltic Kingdom.

The one who defeated the Pujia pirates this time was the fleet of the Coastal City Shipping Division! In addition to the formation of a warfleet, the Coastal City Ship Control Division also has the right to start patrolling the Department in the open sea, as a yamen to control the warfleet. If the Sriwijaya Kingdom is willing to fight with our dynasty for the survival of the Buddhist holy land, then the two countries will naturally be allies, and our DPRK will set up an inspection department and arrange a fleet on Puluozhong Island. ”

This is asking for Puluo Zhong Island as a "concession". However, Ji Yi's deception was clever, and he came up with a plan to form a Buddhist alliance to save the holy land of Tianzhu Buddhism - at this time, Southeast Asia, except for Annam, was under the influence of India. Buddhism and Brahmanism were divided among the Nanyang kingdoms (excluding Annam).

Among them, Buddhism was practiced by the Srivijaya and Bagan (Burma), and Brahmanism was practiced by the Chenla Empire and Java under the Angkor Dynasty.

The four regional powers of Sriwijaya, Bagan, Chenla, and Java are also influenced by countries outside the region. The Kingdom of Annam, which belonged to the Confucian circle, and Zhenla were in long-term hostility and competed for the occupation of the city, thus restraining the expansion of the Zhenla Kingdom to the south and west.

The Chola Kingdom of the Tianzhu Circle allied with the Java State and fought with the Sriwijaya State for a hundred years for the domination of the Sriwijaya Strait. At the same time, it was hostile to the Bagan Dynasty and the Tianzhu Pala Dynasty, which occupied the sacred land of Buddhism, and the Chola Kingdom dreamed of turning the Bay of Bengal into its own inner lake, and attacked not only the Sriwijaya by sea, but also the three Buddhist states of the Pala Dynasty, the Bagan Dynasty, and Ceylon.

The Pala Dynasty, the Bagan Dynasty, Ceylon and the Srivijaya Kingdom have always been in contact, and sometimes they have united to fight against the Chola Kingdom, and there are also marriages between the four kingdoms.

Therefore, Ji Yi, who is more familiar with the situation in Nanyang, wants to piece together a Buddhist alliance - saving the Buddhist holy places protected by the Balo Dynasty is actually a name. With this name, it became reasonable for the Song Dynasty to intervene in Nanyang, and it was easy to win the support of Nanyang Buddhist monks.

After all, the power that the Great Song Dynasty could invest in the South Seas was limited, and there was no absolute strength to crush all countries. In this case, it is necessary to pull one faction and fight another.

Of course, when the Great Song Dynasty formed a Buddhist alliance, it did not mean that it had to turn against the Heavenly Sect and Brahmanism.

Ji Yi's slogan is "save the holy land of Buddhism", not recover the "holy land of Buddhism" - now the Baltic Kingdom has not yet reached the time of imminent destruction, and the Hydnavid Dynasty, which invaded Tianzhu in the northwest, has itself fallen apart, and has no strength to conquer the holy land of Buddhism, Nalanda Temple.

So he just wanted to unite the four kingdoms of the Pala Dynasty, the Bagan Dynasty, Ceylon and the Three Buddhas around the Great Song Dynasty in the name of "saving the holy land of Buddhism" to form a Buddhist alliance to control the trade routes of the South and Western Seas.

"What the master means," the Great Minister of Leather Socks already sensed that something was wrong, "The sailor of the Great Song Dynasty will be stationed on Puluozhong Island in the future?" ”

"The army is on an expedition to Tianzhu, the road is far away, the turmoil is unpredictable, and there is always a need for a foothold." Yuan Jue said, "If you let the army enter Mo Luo Yu, it will inevitably cause disturbance and be very inconvenient, so I want to camp on the wild island of Puluozhong." The king and the prime minister won't object, right? ”

"And how long are you going to be there?" Leather stockings asked.

Yuan Jue smiled: "We will be stationed as long as the Buddha needs us!" ”